Terminal wire forming and assembly apparatus for electrical components



March 5, 1963 F. s. WEISS 3,0

TERMINAL WIRE FORMING D ASSEMBLY APPARATUS FOR ELECTRI COMPONENTS Original Filed April 20, 1956 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 82% 84 l g 60 m 3 J l 7/ .m u

48 FELIX s. WEISS 5* W Mw Fig-1 ATTORNEY March 5, 1963 F. s. WEISS 3,0

TERMINAL WIRE FORMING AND ASSEMBLY APPARATUS FOR ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS Original Filed April 20. 1956 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR.

FEL-IX S. WEISS @202. $4.4

ATTORNEY March 5, 1963 F. s. WEISS 3,079 95 TERMINAL WIRE FORMING AND ASSEMBLY APPARATUS FOR ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS Original Filed April 20, 1956 4 sheets' shee't 3 m IO INVENTOR.

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ATTORNEY March 5, 1963 F. s. WEISS 3,

TERMINAL WIRE FORMING AND ASSEMBLY APPARATUS FOR ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS Original Filed. April 20, 1956 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 INVENTOR.

FELIX S. WEISS WQQW/ ATTORNEY 3,07,957 TERMENAL WIRE FORWENG AND ASSEMBLY AP- PARATUS FOR ELECERECAL COP/EQNENTS Feiix S. Weiss, (Ihestnut Hill, Mass., assignor to Qorneil- Duhilier Electric Corporation, sleuth hlaineld, Ni, a corporation of Delaware riginal application Apr. 2%, 1956, Scr. No. 579,679. Divided and this application Mar. 13, 195 Ser. No. 7%,179

3 Claims. (Cl. 149-71) This invention relates to certain improvements in machines for manufacturing capacitors, or similar relatively small electrical instrumentalities incorporating a plurality of extending terminal Wires, by production line methods in which an effectively endless conveying medium, such as, in the preferred form here shown, a dispensable strip of flexible paperlike material, advances the material from which the capacitor or other electrical instrumentality is to be assembled and finally the capacitor or other electrical instrumentality itself through various operating stations at which sequential steps of assembly and eventually final processing, and if desirable, testing of the completed units are performed.

This application is a division of my application Serial No. 579,679 filed April 20, 1956, now abandoned, and is particularly concerned, as will hereinafter more fully be described, with improved structure for a processing or operating station at which the conveying medium is conditioned to receive a terminal wire subassembly and at which a terminal wire subassembly is formed and is disposed in removably secured operative relationship with said conveying medium to provide a novel and useful product in the form of a web mounted terminal wire subassembly.

The mechanical improvements and product which are the subject of this invention are adaptable to the above described general assembly method of production for the principles, purpose and object of increasing efficiency of production of such methods and the quality and uniformity of the articles so produced. While its principles may be advantageously used in the production of capacitors and other similar electrical instrumentalities such as resistors and rectifiers in various sizes and shapes and which incorporate a plurality of extending terminal wires and may be applied whether the conveying strip be made of one flexible material or another, the present invention is particularly useful in the production of ceramic disc capacitors which include a relatively small ceramic dielectric disc with a layer of conducting material disposed on each of the opposite faces thereof and serving as the electrode 0 elements for the capacitor units. In the assembling of such units, suitable terminal or lead wires are secured to the conducting layers on the ceramic disc and the disc and adjacent portions of the terminal wires secured thereto are covered with a coating of suitable insulating material.

The success of the use of continuous assembly methods of the general type described in the manufacture of these ceramic disc type capacitors depends not only upon the rapidity and continuous flow of operations at the various assembly and processing stations, but also upon the accuracy and reproductability of those operations at each station, all to the end that each capacitor, as it comes to a point of completion, is as much like the preceding and following capacitors as possible.

These objectives are materially aided by the provision of uniformly positioned web mounted terminal wire subassemblies on a conveying medium in such manner as to permit desired positioning and manipulation thereof for subsequent operations and yet prevent any undesired displacement thereof occasioned by conveying medium displacement.

Efilhfifi? Patented Mar. 5, 1963 The invention may be briefly described as including novel and improved apparatus for forming a generally U-shaped, hairpin type, terminal wire subassembly of predetermined character from a length of straight Wire stock in conjunction with the preparation of a web of suitably preconditioned conveyor material to form a terminal wire subassembly receiving channel therein together with associated means for effecting the introduction of said hairpin type terminal wire subassembly in said channel to produce a useful product in the form of a conveying medium having terminal wire subassemblies mounted in releasably secured operation relationship thereon for continuous assembly production line methods of manufacture of capacitor and similar relatively small electrical instrumentalities incorporating a plurality of extending terminal wires.

Among the advantages attendant the practice of this invention, apart from the obvious manufacturing economies that how therefrom, is the provision of uniformly disposed web mounted terminal wire subassemblies wherein such wire subassemblies are disposed in slotlike channels transversely of the conveying web in which the characteristics of both the deformed web material and the U-shaped terminal wire subassemblies cooperate to provide a releasably secured operative engagement therebetween which permits desired positioning and manipulation of the wire subassemblies for subsequent operation and yet prevents any undesired displacement thereof that might be occasioned by displacement of the conveying medium.

The object of this invention is the provision of improved apparatus for automatically fabricating web mounted terminal wire subassemblies in the fabrication of capacitors and similar small electrical inst-rumentalities incorporating a plurality of extending terminal wires and by continuous assembly production line manufacturing methods.

Another object of this invention is the provision of a novel and useful product in the form of a web mounted terminal Wire subassembly.

Other objects and advantages of the invention herein disclosed will be described in the following disclosure and claims and will be illustrated in the accompanying drawiugs which show, by way of example, the principles underlying the invention and the presently preferred embodiment incorporating those principles and by which said principles may be usefully employed in the production line fabrication of ceramic disc capacitors of a high degree of uniformity and with reduced fabrication costs.

Referring to the drawings:

PEG. 1 is a schematic plan View of a strip conveyor conveniently employed in the practice of the herein disclosed invention and showing the preferred configuration thereof immediately prior to its introduction into the apparatus forming the subject matter of this invention;

PEG. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of FIG. 4;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 33 of FIG. 4;

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of 1 16.3,

FIG. 5 is a sectional View taken on the line 5-5 of P163,

PEG. 6 is a sectional view taken on the line 6-6 of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is an oblique view showing the die and punch surface configuration of web manipulating components included in the apparatus forming the subject matter of this invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic plan View representative of operations effected at the described terminal wire insertion apparatus;

FIG. 9 is a sectional View taken on the line 9-9 of FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken on the line 1010 of FIG. 8; FIG; llteis a sectional view as taken on the line 11-11 'ofFIG. 8 immediately prior to web deformation;

gFIG; llbis a; sectional view as taken on the line 1111 .ofFiG. 8 subsequent to web deformation and prior to the insertion ofthe terminal wire subassembly thereon;

1FI;G.112 is a schematic plan view of the presently preferredterminal forming and insertion components;

' EIG.1l3:is ,aschemati-c plan view of the web mounted terminal wire 'su'ba'ssemblies as the same are delivered from-the .apparatusillustrated in the above enumerated drawings. Y

' As indicated above, the subject matter of the herein disclos'ed and-claimed invention is of, particular utility in the fabrication of ceramicdisc type capacitors by productiohrline methods; lioweve'igas will be apparent'to those skilled in the art, some or all of the advantages attendant :the practice of the invention are obtainable for similar operations for other and varied articles such as resistors and rectifiers' and similar instrumentalities that incorporate a plurality of extending terminal wires .that would undergo fabrication by the production line-methods .as generally described above. Forthe 'purpose of convenionce, the herein specifically disclosed and described embodiment will be one that is particularly adapted for use in conjunction with the fabrication of ceramic disc capacitors by production line methods incorporating a conveyor Referring to the drawings, FIG. 1. illustrates a portion of an 'elongate conveyor strip '10 which may be for-med, for example, of heavy paper or cardboard. The strip 19 should preferably h ave the properties of flexibility, internal resilience or elastic resistance to deformation and condition impervious mechanical'strength as described in my eopendin'g application Serial No. 799,200 filed March 13, 1959} Asd'escribed therein a-material'having the desired properties is C-3Kraft'InsulationSheet as manufactured by the Stevens Paper Mills, Inc., of Windsor, Connl, in a thickness of aboiitLOlO inch. The conveyor "strip 10 is preferably provided with a plurality of successive pilot hole perforations 12 uniformly spaced equal distances apart and preferably disposed substantially equidistant from the edges of the web. The perforations l2 permit careful indexing of the conveyor material in thevarious operating stations as well as conveniently providing means b y whichf the web of conveyor material may be incrementallyadvanced duringeach operational cycle. Successive perforations'12 serve to define an article subassembly receiving area disposed therebetween as generally indicated by the area 13 disposed intermediate the dottedlines. Disposed within each area 13 is apair of spacedpairs of transversely aligned longitudinally disposed slits 1d the 'longi'tudinalextentofwhich serves to define. a pair of web integraljretaining straps 16. The'straps 16, when raised above the planeof the r'emainderof the strip 10, serve to .form in cooperative relation With the adjacent portions of the web a transversely disposed terminalwire subassembly receiving channel,

Inbrder to eifect the desired mounting of a terminal .wire subassembly on the conveyor strip l0, it is necessary to '(d) manipulate the strip'or web of conveyor material .10 so as toraise the straps 16.and form the subassembly receiving channel and (b) simultaneously form the terruinal wire subassembly and manipulate the same so as to effect its'insertion in the subassembly receiving channel. FIGURES 2 to 7 illustrate the mechanical essentials of the 'presentlypreferred web manipulating apparatus includable inan operating station adapted to effect the fabrication of web mounted terminal wire subassemblies for ceramic disc capacitors. The web manipulating apparatus is adapted toupwardly displace the strap portions-7160f the web 10 disposed intermediate each of slits in each of the pa s of n i dinal l t 14 h re el ti e s he remainder of said web to form a transverse terminal wire subassembly receiving channel for insertion therein of a terminal wire assembly 18 of the U-shaped hairpin type as illustrated in FI GURE 13.

Referring to the above indicated drawings, there is provided a stationary die block 20 having the upper surface thereof positioned to underlay the path of travel of the web 10. Mounted in the stationary die block 20 are five particularly contoured die inserts 22, 24, 26, 28 and -39 respectively (see FIGS. ,6 and 7'). The upwardly disposed operating surfaces of the die insert-s 24 and 28 are similarly contoured and are positioned, transversely to the direction of the web advance, so as to be disposed respectively,ebeneath those portions 16 of the web 10 disposed" intermediate each of'the slits in each of the longitudinal pairs of slits '14.

The operating surface of each of the die inserts 26, 28 is provided with a rectangularly shaped recess" 32'b'ounded by a pair of transversely disposed upwardly directed shoulders 34 and 36. The shoulders '34, 36 are sized to extend upwardly beyond the outwardly adjacent die surface and are preferably sloped as indicated in the drawings. 'Thedie inserts 22 and 3t) are positioned on either side "of the above described die inserts24, 28 andfthe die insert 26 is positioned between said inserts 24 andZS. So positioned, the die inserts'22, 26 and 30 are located to'be' disposed beneath th'ose'portions' of the web material ldpositioned ,both externally to and intermediate the pairs oflongitudinally disposed slits 14. The operating surfaces of the die inserts 2 2, 26 and30 are provided with rectangularly shaped recesses 38, .40 and 42 respectively, the edges of which are sloped as atei. As best shown in'FIGURES 4 and 7, the centrally disposed die insert 26 is provided with a pair of pilot pin receiving bores 46',

48 adjacent the recess 40 therein. The die block 20 and the above described die inserts thereinare positionedbe} low a portion of a channeled web guide member 50 which is suitably apertured, as at 52 to permit operative engagement of the die inserts by complementary vertically reciprocable pressure pad inserts to which we will now turn. l

Cooperatively associatedwith the die pad 20 is-a vertiqcallyreciprocable punch pad 5,4 having mounted therein five pressure pad inserts 56, 58, 60, 62 and 64. The pressure pad inserts 58 and 62 are positioned to cooperatively engage the die inserts 24 and 28 respectively and the operating surfaces thereof are provided with rectangular recesses 66 sized to conform with the corresponding recesses32 in said die inserts. The sides of the recesses 66 are sloped as at 68 and/7t) so as to conform with the slopedsurface of the shoulders 34 and 36 oh the die inserts 26 and 28. In a similar manner the punch pad inserts 56, and 64 are positioned to engage the die inserts 38, 40 -and.42 respectively, and the operating surfaces thereof are recessed as at 72, 74 and'76. Therecesses7'2, 74 and 76 are bounded'by dependent shoulders snch as at 78, 80, sized to extend downwardly beyond the adjacent punch pad surface and are provided with sloping sides contoured to conform with the sloping side walls 44 of the corresponding recesses 32, 40 and 42 in the die-inserts 22, 26 and 30 respectively. The centrally disposed pressure pad insert 60 has mounted therein two dependent pilot pins 82 and 84 positioned to operatively engage, upon downward displacement thereof, the above described pilot pin receiving bores 46, 48 in the die'in sert 26.

In operation of the above described presently preferred web manipulating components, the vertically reciprocable pressure punch pad '54 'andthe pressure pad inserts 56, 58, '60, 62 and'64 mounted therein are maint'ained'at or near the limit of upward displacement duringthe period inlwhich the web ltliis advancedintermediate the chairheled web guide 50 and the upper surface of the stationary die block 29. Upon cessation of the web advance portion of the cycle of operation, the web material will be disposed upon the upper surface of the die block 2% with successive pilot pin perforations 12 therein disposed in approximate alignment with the pilot pin receiving bores 46, 48 in the die insert 26. So positioned, the portions of the web material disposed intermediate the longitudinal slits in each of the pairs of slits 14 will be disposed in approximate alignment over the recesses 32 in the die inserts 26 and 23 respectively. Downward displacement of the punch pad 54 results initially in engagement of the pilot pin perforations 12 in the web material by the dependent rounded end pilot pins 32 and 84 and, if required, in minor corrective alignment of the web material lil relative to the die inserts 22, 2d, 26, 28 and 33. FIGURE 11a shows the disposition of the web material it? immediately prior to compressive engagement thereof intermediate the die inserts 22, 24, 26, 23 and 3G and the pressure pad inserts 56, S8, 69, 62 and 64. Further downward displacement of the punch pad 54 results in compressive engagement of the web material it as illustrated in FiG- URE 11b, intermediate the above identified die inserts and pressure pad inserts. Such compressive engagement of the web material 16 will result in the disposition of the portion 16 of the web material it) included between the slits in the pairs of longitudinal slits 14 against the surface of the recesses 66 in the pressure pad inserts 58 and 62 by the action of the shoulders 3 36 in the die inserts 24 and 28 and in the disposition of the remaining portions of the web material it) against the surfaces of the recesses 39, 40 and 42 in the die inserts 22, 26 and 36 by the action of the dependent shoulders 78, so in the pressure pad inserts 56, 6t) and 64. With the web material so disposed, there is formed a transverse substantially rectangular terminal wire subassembly receiving channel 86 defined in part by the disposition of the web material it} as described above and in part by the recessed areas disposed intermediate the extending shoulders on both the die inserts and pressure pad inserts.

The above described compressive engagement of the web material 16 intermediate the die block 29 and its above described die inserts and the punch pad 5- 5 and its above described pressure pad inserts is maintained while insertion of a suitably shaped terminal wire subassembly in the receiving channel 86 is effected.

FIGURES 12 and 8 illustrate the essentials of the associated wire manipulating components adapted to cooperate with the heretofore described web manipulating components to effect the desired formation of a terminal wire subassembly and the insertion of said subassembly into the terminal wire subassembly receiving channel 86 formed in the web material 19. Referring to the above identified drawings, there is provided an associated terminal wire cutting assembly (schematically shown at 38 on FIGURE 8) arranged to sever an advanced length of terminal wire 90 positioned in front of a pair of stationary wire forming dies 92 and 94. As shown in more detail in FIGURE 12, the presently prefer-red terminal wire cutting assembly includes a stationa y wire guide bushing 96 having an axially disposed bore 8 therewith sized to freely pass an advancing length of terminal wire 91') and to properly direct the advance of the same into operational location in front of the wire forming dies @2, 94. Positioned in sliding contact against the cutting edge of the wire guide bushing 96 is a horizontally reciprocable cutting knife 102 having a substantially conically shaped aperture 164 therethrough with the apex thereof disposed adjacent to and in alignment with the bore 93 of the wire guide bushing 96. The terminal wire cutting knife 162 is mounted in a suitable fixed slide platform res and is horizontally reciprocated therein through the connecting pin 19% and an adjacent horizontally disposed slide 110. The drive slide 11% is connected to a cam follower 112 disposed in engagement with a suitably contoured drive cam 114 mounted on a drive shaft 116.

In operation of the unit, a length of straightened terminal wire as is advanced, by a suitable wire feed mechanism through the bore 98 in the terminal wire guide bushing 96 and through the aperture lil i in the cutting knife 1G2 and into position in front of the Wire forming dies 92, 94. With the advanced length of terminal wire 9% so located, the drive slide 11% under control of the drive cam 11 i is retracted. The retraction of the drive slide 114) is transmitted through the connecting pin 108 into equivalent retraction of the cutting knife 1G2 relative to the bushing 96. The retraction of the cutting knife 1&2 effects a horizontal displacement of the apex of the aperture 164 therein relative to the bore 98 in the bushing 96 and effects a sharp severing of the advanced length of the terminal wire 99. Following the severing of the terminal wire as described above, the drive slide 119 is advanced to again replace the aperture 3434 in the knife 162 in alignment with the bore in the wire guide bushing 36 to permit the subsequent advance of another length of terminal wire 95 into operative position in front of the wire forming dies 92, 94 during the next cycle of machine operation.

At the conclusion of the above described sequence of operation, a severed length of terminal wire )il is posi tioned in front of the wire forming dies 92, 94. in order to form this length of terminal wire into a terminal Wire subassembly of the so-called hairpin type and to effect the insertion of such formed subassembly into terminal wire subassembly receiving channel 36 formed in the web 19, there is provided an elongated horizontally reciprocable pressure finger 118 positioned to be advanced into the terminal wire receiving channel 35 as defined by the web material ill and the operative surfaces of the pressure pad inserts 56, 53, 6t), 62 and 64 and the die inserts 22, 24, 26, 28 and 39. The pressure finger 118 is sized to pass through said channel and to abut the cut length of terminal wire 9i} positioned immediately in front of the wire forming die members 92, 94. The pressure finger is mounted on a horizontally reciprocable drive slide 124? and is accurately positioned, with respect to its path of horizontal displacement, by a fixed slide platform 122. The drive slide 12% is connected to a cam follower 12% disposed in operative engagement with a suitably contoured drive cam 12%. cooperatively associated with the pressure finger 118 is an elongate horizontally reciprocable wire forming finger 128 positioned in front of the opening intermediate the die members 92, 94. The wire forming finger 123 is mounted on a horizontally reciprocable drive slide 139, and is accurately positioned, with respect to its path of reciprocation, by a fixed slide platform. The drive slide 139 is connected to a cam follower 134 disposed in operative engagement with a suitably contoured drive cam 136.

In operation of the unit and subsequent to the formation of the terminal wire subassembly receiving channel 86 by the previously described web manipulating components, the horizontally-reciprocable pressure finger 118 is advanced through said terminal wire subassembly receiving channel 86. At its limit of advance the end of the pres-sure finger 118 extends through the opening intermediate the die members 92, 94 and is disposed in abutting engagement with the terminal wire 96 positioned in front of said die members. With the pressure finger 113 so positioned, the wire forming finger 128 is advanced into abutting engagement against the other side of said terminal wire 99 positioned in front of said die members 92, 94. With the pressure finger 118 and wire forming finger 128 so positioned, the pressure finger 118 is retracted in conjunction with an advance of the wire forming finger 128. The advance of the wire forming finger 123 results in displacement of the terminal wire 9t} through the opening between the wire forming dies 92 and 94 and in deformation of the same into a hairpin type terminal Wire subassembly such as illustrated in FIGURE l3. Continued advance of the wire forming finger 128 and conjoint retraction of the pressure finger 118 results in insertion of said formed hairpin type terminal Wire subassen n bly in the terminal wire receiving channel 86 in the Web material 10 as also illustrated in said FIGURE 13. When the limit of advance of the wire forming finger 128 is reached, said forming finger is retracted and both the pressure finger 118 and the forming finger 128 are mainta'ined'in retrated position until the next cycle of the machine operation.

FIGURE 13 illustrates the character of the improved product in the form of a webmounted terminal wire subassembly that results from the operation of the above described mechanical elements;

As there set forth,'the retaining straps 1 6 are displaced out of the plane of the remainder of the strip 10 and formed, in cooperative relation with the adjacent portions thereof, a transversely disposedarticle receiving channel adapted to contain a multiwire terminal subassembly such as the illustrated U-shaped hairpin type terminal lead assembly'generally designated 15%. The arms 152, 154 of the hairpin terminal lead assembly are disposed beneath the straps 16 and above the remainder of the strip surface in transverse alignment therewith. 'The disposition of the arms 152 and 154 in the crotches formed at the end ofthe slits 14 prevents any displacement of the hairpin terminal wire assembly 150 in the'direction of strip length and deformation of the hairpin assembly within the channel may be minimized if not actually prevented by bending the tongue 156 upwardly along the foldline indicated by the dotted lines 158 intermediate the extending arm portion of the arms 152 and 154at a location disposed inwardly of the strip edge res. The internal resilience of the strip material coupled with the above described engagement of the hairpin lead assembly 15% by thestr'aps l6 prevents displacementof the lead assembly 1'56 in a direction perpendicular to the strip surface andadditionally minimizes, if notactually prevents, any undesired twisting or turning of the Wires. Moreover, the internal resilience of the strip material coupled with the relatively large area of contact between the hairpin lead assembly 150 andthe strip surfaceis sufiicient to prevent undesired displacement of the lead assembly 158. within the channel and transversely to the strip as Would be occasioned by strip flexing and bending encountered during its advance and yet to permit. such displacements when desired to be effected by engagementof thehai'rpin lead assembly 156, by an operating element.

As the above description shows, the illustrated and described construction assures a positive releasably secured positioning of the terminal Wire subassembly mounted thereon without resort to any extrinsic'fastening means and-duetothepositive uniform relationship between the during the sequential stages of the fabricating process,

cyclically operable means for inserting a terminal wire subassembly in a preslit conveyor web comprising a stationarydie member and a vertically recipro'cable' pressure member having the web engaging surfaces thereof contoured to perpendicularly displace the portions of said web material disposed intermediate the slits therein relative to the plane of the'remainder of said Web material upon compressive engagement of saidweb material therebetween, said displaced portion of saidweb material in cooperation with the remainder of said compressively engaged web material defining a transversely disposed terminal wire subassembly receiving channel thereinja Wire forming die positioned in transverse alignment with said terminal wire subassembly receiving channel and a wire forming finger member displaceable through said. die and into said receiving channel for forming a terminal wire subassembly and introducing the same into said channel.

2. In fabricating machines for electrical components such as ceramic disc capacitors'andsimilar relatively small electrical instrumentalities incorporating a plurality of extending terminal wires and of the class wherein an advancing web of dispensable conveyor material serves as a carrier for the electrical component constituent elements and progressively formed subassemblies thereof during the sequential stages of the fabricating process, cyclically operable means for inserting a terminal wire subassembly in a preslit conveyor web comprising a stationary die member and a vertically reciprocable pressure member having the web engaging surfaces, thereof :con-

toured to perpendicularly displace the portions of said web material disposed'intermediate the slitstherein relative to the plane of the remainder of said-web material upon compressive engagementof saidweb-materialxtherer between, saiddisplaced. portion of said. web material fin cooperation with the remainder of said compressively engaged web material defining a transversely disposed terminal wire subassembly receiving channel therein, a,

wire forming die positioned in transverse alignment with said terminal wire subassembly receiving channel, an elongate reciprocable feed finger displaceablethrough said receiving channel into adjacent operative relation with ments and progressively formed subassemblies thereof during the sequential stages of the fabricating process, cyclically operable means for inserting a terminal wire subassembly in a preslit conveyor web comprising means for perpendicularly displacing the portions of the web material disposed intermediate'the slits thereinrelativeto the plane of the remainder of said Web material toform a transversely, disposed terminalwire subassembly receiving channel therein, Wire forming die means positionedin transverse alignment withsaid-terminal wire subassembly receiving channel and wire forming means displaceable through said die and into said receiving channel for forming a terminal wire subassembly and introducing the same into said channel.

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1. IN FABRICATING MACHINES FOR ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS SUCH AS CERAMIC DISC CAPACITORS AND SIMILAR RELATIVELY SMALL ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENTALITIES INCORPORATING A PLURALITY OF EXTENDING TERMINAL WIRES AND OF THE CLASS WHEREIN AN ADVANCING WEB OF DISPENSABLE CONVEYOR MATERIAL SERVES AS A CARRIER FOR THE ELECTRICAL COMPONENT CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS AND PROGRESSIVELY FORMED SUBASSEMBLIES THEREOF DURING THE SEQUENTIAL STAGES OF THE FABRICATING PROCESS, CYCLICALLY OPERABLE MEANS FOR INSERTING A TERMINAL WIRE SUBASSEMBLY IN A PRESLIT CONVEYOR WEB COMPRISING A STATIONARY DIE MEMBER AND A VERTICALLY RECIPROCABLE PRESSURE MEMBER HAVING THE WEB ENGAGING SURFACES THEREOF CONTOURED TO PERPENDICULARLY DISPLACE THE PORTIONS OF SAID WEB MATERIAL DISPOSED INTERMEDIATE THE SLITS THEREIN RELATIVE TO THE PLANE OF THE REMAINDER OF SAID WEB MATERIAL UPON COMPRESSIVE ENGAGEMENT OF SAID WEB MATERIAL THEREBETWEEN, SAID DISPLACED PORTION OF SAID WEB MATERIAL IN COOPERATION WITH THE REMAINDER OF SAID COMPRESSIVELY ENGAGED WEB MATERIAL DEFINING A TRANSVERSELY DISPOSED TERMINAL WIRE SUBASSEMBLY RECEIVING CHANNEL THEREIN, A WIRE FORMING DIE POSITIONED IN TRANSVERSE ALIGNMENT WITH SAID TERMINAL WIRE SUBASSEMBLY RECEIVING CHANNEL AND A 